NOVEL: Saiunkoku Monogatari

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Sakurinha

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To exorcise
the demons,
to bring peace
to the people’

his sincerity, -
eight sages :
gathered. I

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Witt) the wit
of the 8 sages,
he laid Ihe
foundation
of his empire,
and brought
light to
the people.

> Put the palace
[ he’d built for
j the sages,

{ MOW kMOWM

r as SeMtougen,
still staMds at
a comer of the
Imperial City.

ALTHOUGH
THE EIOHT
5A0ES

BEUEVEP
THAT THEY
CONTINUE
TO LIVE
AMONO

NO.

EVEN TWOUOH

THOUOH
: YOU TAKE
IE IMPERIAL

SHOULPNT

you bb on

DUTY AT THE
IMPERIAL
COURTS
TODAY?

Mill 1 II

VI11 ■- r : 111 fits

I NAVE
APBETTV
WELL-PAID
ASSIGNMENT
WAITING

WE CAN
AFFORD
TO EAT
BETTER
FOR

TONIGHTS

PINNER.'

you

RETURN

PERSONAL

OUARP

ACCOMPANYING

ITS

WHEAT

AGAIN!!

WHEAT!!

THIS

MONTH!

stranoe

RUMOURS

IT WILL
AFFECT
YOUR JOB
PROSPECTS..

ALWAYS

PLEASE,
DON'T CRY
ANYMORE.

I LIKE

WHEAT, TOO.
ITS VERY
NUTRITIOUS.

YOUVE USER
ALL THAT UP
BY STAYING
WITH US
ANP HELPING
OUT WITH THE
HOUSEHOLP
EXPENPITURE.

COMFWYABLE
LIFE 3Y
YOURSELF.

W£ CAN'T

PORTION cur
Of FATHER'S
SALARy.

MASTER,
SHUUREI-
P ONO

RETURNED.

ABSENT

WHILE

SHAO-TAISHI

WAITED.

FORGIVE

ME,

COURTESY.

WHY WOULD
SUCH A
HIOH-RANKSD
FIOURE BE
VISITINO ME?

THE FAMED
PRIME MINISTER
WHOVE ASSISTED
THE PREVIOUS
EMPEROR.

CURRENTLY
OUIDINO
THE CURRENT
YOUNO EMPEROR
AS ONE OF
THE 3 ELDERS.
HIS STATUS IS
SECOND ONLY TO
, THE EMPEROR
HIMSELF...

SHUUREI-

REVIVEP,

P/MJSHTER
LIKE THIS,
SH0UKA-90M

APPRECIATION.

LOOK DOWN
ON THESE
FIVE OLD,
WRINKLED
FINGERS

Political attitude.
Zero motivation

appears at court,
leaving everything
to his subordinates
to worry about.

Nobody knows
what he does.

he doesn't have
a single concubine.

ruu<B

TO ASK
SHUUREI-PONO
TO BE THE
EMPEROR'S
CONCUBINE!!

NO

WONPER
THEY ARE

SOMEONE

WHO

UNDERSTANDS

POPULARITY
6 "THE YOUNO

THE KOI
FAMILY"

IS RAPIDLY

LUXURIOUS
tVAT IT'S LIKE

ANOTHER

WORLP.

HAPPEN!

OR WE MIGHT
AS WELL BREAK
OUR OLD BONES

we Neep

TO ARRANGE
FOR THOSE
YOUNGSTERS,
A MEET1N0
OF PESTW.

AMONO
THE YOUNGER
OFFICIALS,
WITH
A BRIOHT
FUTURE
AHEAD OF US.

BELIEVE
WE ARE
REDUCED
TO BEINO
ORNAMENTAL
OFFICIALS.

SHUT THAT
EVER-MOVING
MOUTH
OF YOURS,

mm*

>«£?>

ITS
JUST A
CONCUBINE!

SHAME

SHOUKA-SAMA'S

PAU5HTER,

I WOULP
CONSIP6R IT.

5 THE ONES
SHOUKA
ALWAYS
8RINOS.

FAVOURITE

BUNS.

I CAN'T

crest you

WITHOUT
A NAME.

THANKS
FOR yOUR
COMPLIMENT.

I HAVEN'T.
HEARP

X KNOW
THE EMPEROR
VERy WELL.

I CAN PASS
THE MESSAOE
FOR you.

ANYONE
PASS THE
MESSAGE.

IT WILL BE
MEANINGLESS
IF I DON'T
TELL HIM
MYSELF.

I'LL BE AT
THE ARCHIVES
AROUND
THIS TIME
EVERY DAY.

IF YOU
ARE FREE,
LETS HAVE
TEA AGAIN.

ALRIGHT,

RAN

SHUUEI-

DONO?

kouyuu

5W BY
HIS

majesty?

UNPER THE
CURRENT
CIRCUMSTANCES,
EVEN IF HIS
MAJESTY CRANTS IT,
THEY WILL PROBABLY
\ JUST REJECT IT
\WITH A LAUOH.

ANYWAY,
MCE NEITHER

AT THIS
POINT OF TIME,
IT DOESN'T
MATTER
IF I'M HATED
B/ ANOTHER.

UPSET

/ SHAD, \
YOU'D BETTER
BE CAREFUL
ABOUT HOW
HE MAY PAY

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Cara

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A librarian
who doesn't

SHUUREI
IS SHOUKA'S
PAUG HTER.

i IS

v-'l, Xf

SHAO-TAISHt?

TO PERSUADE
THE EMPEROR
TO TAKE PART
IN Fames?

WEATHER'S
JREAT TODAY.

' WATER..

PLEASE,

DON’T

ABANDON

ME!!!

O F THEIR
DEATHS
EVERY
NIGHT.

IF

I WERE
LEFT
BEHIND,
I'D RATHER
DIE FIRST/

NEARLY

RESPONSIBLE
FOR yOLIRSELF,
NO MATTER
IOW UNFORTUNATE
OR UNFAIR
THAT MAY SEEM.

your\

OWN '
CHOICE

BUT WHEN
“SURVIVAL*
IS THE MAIN
CONCERN
EVERYDAY,

MY HAPPINESS
I UNHAPPINESS

ANYMORE.

A NATURAL
DISASTER,

MANY THINOS
THAT ONE
CAN HANDLE
THEMSELVES/

CONSIDER
PLEDOINO
W/ LOYALTY

I'M GOING

SHOVING IN
POLITICAL
KNOWLEDGE
INTO HIS HEAD
FROM GROUND

HIS MAJESTY
SEEMS
TO HAVE
CHANOEP
BRILLIANTLY
OVERNIOHT.

1 LIKE
SHUUREI,
BUT X LIKE
SEIRAN,
TOO.'

EXCITINO/

IF IT WERE
NONSENSE,
KOUYUU-PONO
WOULP HAVE
IGNORED IT
COMPLETELY.

HE'S

RATHER

SHARP

DURINO

LESSONS,

THOUOH
HIS HABIT
OF OETTINO

SERVANTS TO
ACCOMPANY HW
EVERY NIOHT
HASN'T
CHANOEP

EVEN THOUOH
HE'S ALWAYS
REBUTTER BY
KOUYUU-PONO.

Il/: - . |

SEIRAN
CAME BY
EARLIER
IN THE DAY
WITH THEM.

HE SAID
THEY JUST
BLOOMED.

THESE PALE
YELLOW ONES
ARE VERY
BEAUTIFUL,

SEIRAN

HE IS
RATHER
UPSET-

FULL OF
THORNS.

DOESN'T
IT HURT,
TO PLUCK

HANDS?

THESE

HANDS...

THEY
ARE LIKE
SEIRAN'S...

MY

NAME!

SURPRISING.

DO YOU
SUPDSNLy

you...

RyuuKi?

I'ljtll

i»m|

lyjj

WHERE VO
X SLEEP?

SLEEPING

SO

SOUNDLY.

BEFORE

HOW

WARM.

iMISUNDER-

NIGHT.

COMFORTING

WEIGHT...

AND THAT
STRANGE
SENSE OF
SECURITY...

A MINUTE...
HIS EYELASHES

HOW

ANNOYING.

THOUGH

*4. I'VE NEVER
~ NOTICED IT.

AH!

HIS FACS
IS RATHER
LOVELY.

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C HAPTER 03

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Editor Cara

Qc Sakurinha

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HIS MAJESTY
FINALLY SPENT
A NISHT WITH
ALAPY/

SORRY FOR THE !,
INTERRUPTION!" '

Ah' Oh, man!
Vfhat w ill happen
if father or Seiran
believe those
rumours? Vfhat
should I do??

IF X DIP DO
SOMETHIN#,
WHAT'S WRON#
WITH THAT?

YOU ARE MY
CONCUBINE
AFTER ALU.

SMOOTH.-VER/
COMFORTABLE
TO TOUCH...

CHANGE THE
TOPIC'! JUST
mm ME!

HAPPENEO
EAST NIGHT,
RIGHT?

...OREAT.

50 ,

NOTHINO

HAPPENEP.

FROM VOUR
EXPRESSION.

PONT LOOK
POWNONTHE
ME. I SPENP ALL

Mt sudd
on your
, chopsticksf

UNWILLING?

WHAT? YOU
SHOULP ONLY
VO THINGS LIKE
THAT WITH THE
ONE you
i LOVE.

THAT'S

WHAT I

WHAT'S
WITH THE
SUPPEN
CHANOE IN
EXPRESSION?

BUT ITS A
PIFFERENT
SORT OF

love you that
my, I can't do
things like that

SINCE YOU LIKE
MEN, YOU
SHOULP HAVE
MANY OPTIONS
TO PICK FROM.

EVEK/BOVY...

THINKS

PIFFERENUy.

THAT’S
My OWN
OPINION.

...WHAT THE,
how can you
LET A OIRL TALI
ABOUT SUCH
TOPICS...

MEAN HIS
MAJESTY

LEAVING, HIS
MAJESTY SAID THAT
HE WANTED TO
BRIDSE THE SAP
BETWEEN HUSBAND
AND WIFE.

SEIRAN/
THERE'S ONLY
ONE WAY TO
BRIDSE THAT
SAP/

TO LET THE
OTHER CAUL YOU
BY YOUR NAME...
THAT'S SENERAU
RAN'S METHOD OF
8RIDSINS THE SAP
WITH WOMEN? HOW
SURPRISINS.

NOTHINS

HAPPENED.

IS THERE
A REASON
FOR YOUR
CONFIDENCE:

SOMETHINS
SOINS ON

There isn't
anything/

grown man.

WATCH OUT,
SEIRAN.

REALLY?

TURNER

NOTHING!

KOU/UU-
PONO
CAUGHT
W/NP OF
THAT
RUMOR!!

ATAU.!

Ah

This is bad.
This is

muY

WHAT'S

WRONO...

YOU JUST LAY
DOWN TOGETHER,
RIOHT? NOTHING
HAPPENED.

...FATHER,
I'M 16/ AND
HE'S A 19

mtanim

immrn

lYfiat are you
doing here again,
you shameless

\.]L '

m

>» 1

wmi \

UST W/5LKEP
OUT OF A
PAINTING.

LIKE SOME
YOUH6 COUPLE

OUR SUPPER
TONIOHT?

SUPPER,

RATHER

THAN

'SUPPER',

AH' THIS
HAREM...

THIS

HAREM.

/ I REALLY
WANT TO
BREAK THIS
ON HIS HEAR,
BUT I PONT

mm.

7 (

)T

i utm

b:

XPON'T

amo

YOO

Wi

BUT MV
PARTNERS

TAUGHT
MP HIM HIS
SOU-TAIFU BOOKS.
TRAINED
HIM IN THE
SOWRD.

Nobody expected
anything front
bint. He was that
insignificant.

existence. An
unnecessary

SHUUREI IS
RULY PLEASED
WITH HIS
'LEARNING

SOMETHING
X SPENT YEARS
STUDYING,
NOBODY COULD
PICK IT UP WITHIN
JUST A FEW
MONTHS.

EXACTLY.

WHATEVER
THE CASE,
HIS STUPIDITY

SILENTLY..

RAN SHUUEI
IS A MAN WHO WIL
BE COMLPETELY

DECIDED ON A LEADER
TO FOLLOW.

SHUUREI
IS POINS A
6000 JOB.
ONLY...

IE

SHE FINPS
OUT THAT HIS
MAJESTY WAS
NLY PRETENPINS,

THANKS TO
•APY SHUUREI
THAT HE
PECIPEP TO
BUCK UP.

SHE'LL BE
VERY
ANSRY, X
SUPPOSE.

I PESERYES

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CHAPTER 04

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Editor Sakurinha

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kV ^

n date uiith
the rehrefhin?
Spring wind...

AN/UE!

I've been
waiting

that day.

Ik

SILVER REACTS
WITH POISON.

X SUPPOSE
THIS SILVER
CUP ACTS
LIKE AN
ALARM.

THERE'S
SOMEONE IN
THE PALACE
WHO PLANS

Stiai4

WHAT?

I WAS

SLEEPING AT
THE CORNER Of
THE ROOM WITf
MY BOLSTER
LASTNIGHT!

BECAUSE
SHUUREI'S BOO/
IS SO SOFT,
ITS VERY
COMFORTABLE
TO HOLP YOU
WHILE I SLEEP.

I SLEPT
VERY
WELL.

m

PERVERT"

YOUN& 6IRL.

attention

rowea

HM.ru.

MAJESTY
HAS AHV MIND
TO EXPAND
YOUR HAREM,
PLEASE

MAJESTY IS
COMPLETELY
ENTHRALLED

CONCUBINE,
AND THAT’S
SHUUREI.

mm

9

I PONT
NEEP A

WMIf

1

CONCUBINE

IF ONLY \

m

I WEREN'T |

\ KIN6...

\ /T\\3Wj

I PON'T S

¥ A

X PIPN'T
EXPECT you
TO ACCEPT IT
SO EASILY.

"PROTECT
THE FLOWER
OF THE KING".

J ALRIGHT,

% LET US GET
!j CRACKING!

Arghl
This is
irritating!!!

it makes m
mm to slam
HIS FACE AGAINST
THE FLOOR
REPEATEOLY!

ye-yes,

KOURJN?

I'M TOO
EMBARBASSEP
TO SEE ANYONE
EIGHT NOW!!

, I'M FINE.

JUST A LITTLE
UNCOMFORTABLE.

I'LL LIKE
TO STAY
INDOORS
TO DO SOME
EMBROIDERy
TODAT.

ARE

you NOT
FEELINO
WELL?

ENVIABLE.

you ARE
SO GOOD AT
EVERYTHING
ELSE THAT
X DIDN'T

expect you

TO ACTUALLY

S/USUI
SHOULD (JIVE
THIS TO
YOUR MOST
IMPORTANT
SOMEONE,

WELL,

OVERCOME

LITTLE MORE
MOTIVATED

EVERY BIT ’
OF FEELING
FOR THAT
SPECIAL
SOMEONE

REALLY I
LIOHT.
SHUUREI
CAN PRINK i
SOME, TOO! /

AS YOUR
/MAJESTY HAS

REQUESTED,

I'VE BROUGHT
TOE WINE.

WINE?

USING
MY THINGS

AGAIN!!

THAT'S
CLEARLY
A TEA
CUP.

PIP THE

NEEPLE-SELLER
CHEAT ME
OF MY I
MONEY? i

i OH PEAR!
THE NEEPLES
HAVE RUSTEP

JUST THAT

time oitof

SICK IN THAT

can ot sotp

FOR A COT
OF MOW'

THAT...

SORRY.

IDIOT''
WHAT
ARC YOU
TACKING
ABOUT?

I CAN JUST
WASH IT!

nma

I'll clean the stains
ovt of the carpet,
you will go and
drain the wine out
of the box!!

alright;

ORDERED.

jSfk

yj'

l

TOWER OR
-WEALTH,

EVERVTHINO

BUT, THERE
SEEMS TO BE
SOMETHING
WRONO WITH
HIS MAJESTY.

INEEO
TODO

I COULDN'T\
FIND you

I DIDN'T
GIVE BIRTH
TO YOU!

Because

I'M LIKE AN
UNWANTED
CHILD.

AND DIDN'T
PAT ANT
ATTENTION
TO ME
AFTER
THAT.

I'M THE
yOUNOEST,
SOI

DIDN'T OET
ANy LOVE
FROMMy
FATHER.

IHATB
THe SIGHT
OF YOU!

WH/DIDN'T :

- you COMB

-AND LOOK
•FOR MB ?/

ONLY SIX
THEN, SO
X KNEW
NOTHING.

FOR
A YEAR,
X KEPT
CRYING.

ANIUBI

I THOUGHT
I WAS
PISLIKEP
BECAUSE
I WAS
NAUGHT/.

I |1 BECAME
'ALONE AGAIN.
1 ALWAYS,
[LOOKING FOR
A TRACE OF
MY BROTHER.

IN THIS:. =
VAST PALACE,^
THERE.WASN'T:
ANYONE WHO'
TOOK NOTICE t
OF MY 1
PRESENCE.

PIP

I REALLY
EXIST IN
THIS WORLP?

AM I
REALLY
ALIVE...?
\JUST WHEN

SMILED
AT ME.

X MET
SHOUKA.

LONGER
ALONE IF
WAS AT TH
ARCHIVES.

I'M SUCH
A FOOL!

UNBELIEVABLY
SENILE ANP
COMFORTINO...

SHUUREI' 1

ERHU...

IS LIKE
PEARLS..,

he was

ALWAYS

BRUISEP

THEN.

OTHER THAN
DRESSING
HIS WOUNPS,
THERE WAS
NOTHING ELSE
I COUiV VO.

HIS FRANK
NATURE IS
THE MOST

RIOHT?

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W RITTEN 1! Y-Y I'KI N O
ILLUSTRATED BYiYl RA’

DON'T

MENTION

LOOK

THANKS,

REISHIN.

THAT’S A
BEAUTIFUL

BROTHER/

OH, SO,
IT'S HIS
BROTHER'S
FAMILY.

YOUNG lAW,
X THINK THAT
UNCUE OVER
THERE WILL
LIKE SOME

mew.

mm mu

OKAY?

HE'S

STILL JUST
A PERVERT,
AFTER ALL.

WELCOME,

BOTH

of you.

ACTUALLY, '■
REISHIN DID
TBLL ME THAT
HE WOULD BRING-
HIS FRIENDS

BROTHER
HAS CHANCED
A LOT
RECENUy.

X SUPPOSE
THAT IT IS
THANKS TO

I LOOK IMPORTANT

FORWARD FRIEND

TO SEEINO OF MINE.

irw

THE REMAINING
FOUR OPTIONS INTO
A PASSAOB THAT
SHOWS HOW HAPPY
YOU AP& TO SEE ME
BACK SAFELY, ANP
THEN PRESENT
IT TO ME.

I'LL

TELL YOU
HOW SHUUREI
IS POINO AFTER
I'M HAPPY
WITH YOUR
ANSWER. /

CSAIUNKCKU MONOCATARJ